Before becoming a director, he was a well-known film critic (notably for the magazines "Sight And Sound" and "The Listener") and presented the BBC-TV film program "Film Night" for several years until the late 1970s.
Before becoming a director, he was a well-known film critic (notably for the magazines "Sight And Sound" and "The Listener") and presented the BBC-TV film program "Film Night" for several years until the late 1970s.